New York Bill Aims to Curb Child Marriages
Albany February 1. A child marriage bill in the New York legislature seeks to set sixteen as the minimum age for girls to marry with strict safeguards. Exceptions require parental consent or a court order after a hearing. The measure follows data from 1919 to 1935 showing rising marriages of girls under sixteen.
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Albany, WY
Associated Press
New York
Lengue of Women
Seinster
Henry D Williams
Assemblyman Phelps
Paebla
Roya
D!ll
Children’s Court
League of Women Voters
State Department of Health
Plumber Sued by Artist Over Fire Destruction in 1927
Eugene McNerney Jr of Westport brings suit in Superior Court seeking 4000 for damage to his home after a December 3 1927 fire. He names Bertha M Betts of Norwalk owner of a plumbing business as defendant, alleging installation of a heater left a fire risk. He says heater wiring caused overheating igniting a wooden partition and destroying artworks and other works for press use.
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Eugene McNerney, Jr
Westport Veanerday
Bertha M Betts
Norwalk
McNerney
Toms
Cheshire Reports Smallpox Case In Febuary Quarantine
Cheshire reports its first smallpox case, with the patient placed under quarantine. Health officer Dr Na nlaon announced the action along with steps to prevent spread, while a majority of the local children have been vaccinated.
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Cheshire
Associated Press
C. Na
Dolls End Play as Soviet Bans on Dolls in Russia
London reports a Riga dispatch quoting The Soviet Woman that little Russian girls must not play with dolls as dolls symbolize bourgeois family life and awaken motherhood, leading Moscow teachers to ban them. The same dispatch cites Pravda noting disorder among Leningrad garrison soldiers upset by revolutionary propaganda in films and seeking shorter overcoats.
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London
Associated Press
Riga
Daily Mail Today
Moscow Teachers Union
Leningrad
Pravda
Geo
Move to Dismiss Sinclair Contempt Charges In DC
Washington February 1 contending the government failed to prove any allegation in its criminal contempt actions against Harry F Sinclair William J Burns and four associates defense counsel asked Justice Frederick L Siddons in DC Supreme Court to dismiss the case The defense moved after the court refused to strike testimony from star witness Mc Mullin a Burns detective who shadowed the Fall Sinclair oil conspiracy jury and testified he prepared charged affidavits to prompt a mistrial The government argued the only proven fact was detectives kept the jury under surveillance in Sinclair s employ and intent could not be considered while actions potentially constituting contempt were in question Only actions not intent mattered per the government
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Wabghington
Associated Press
Harry F. Sinclair
Wiam J Burns
Todey
Frederick L Siddons
Supreme Court of District of Columbia
William J McMullin
McMullin
Burns
Martin W Littleton
Sinclair
Court Denies Model Portrait Claim by Anns Fell
In New York on February 1, Supreme Court Justice Cotillo denied Anns Fell of Warren Virginia a claim to a portrait painted by Abbot H. Thayer in 1880. Fell testified hazily and could not prove title as intermediaries in the chain were dead. The portrait had circulated through Macbeth galleries and Met and Carnegie shows before Baldwin acquired it.
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New York
Associate Press
Supreme Court
Anns Palmer Fell
Warrentown
Charles L. Baldwin
Abbot H. Thayer
Thayer
Europe
Havre
Baldwin
Metropolitan Museum
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh
Macbeth
Brettfeld
Waterford
Conn
Cotillo
Fell
Southboro School Closed Indefinitely Amid Scarlet Fever
Southboro Massachusetts February 1 Dr Lowell Bacon chairman of the Board of Health ordered all public schools closed indefinitely as a precaution against a possible scarlet fever epidemic. Three cases had developed among school children this week.
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Southboro
Mass
Associated Press
Lowell Bacon
Board of Health
Emerald Oil Promises Skin Cure For Eczema
Advert says a powerful antiseptic oil can kill infections and restore skin health. Cites Moore's Emerald oil in 2 ounce bottles available from druggists nationwide. warns one bottle may not cure all but claims dramatic results.
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Moone
First Iron in U S Came From Corn Says Speaker
William Henry Burr of Westport Library and Bernaysa Johnson spoke at a Lions Club luncheon at the Stratfield hotel. Burr traced early Connecticut industry from pioneer water wheels to clocks, hats, needles, and shipbuilding, noting iron ore found near Salisbury and a 1776 Hudson River chain forged from local iron. Johnson described Rome’s Vatican lamp installations powered by radio waves.
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William Henry Burr
Westport Library
Bernaysa Johnson
Lions Club
Stratfield Hotel
Connecticut
Johnson
Vatican
Rome
Burr
New England
Sallaburr
Salisbury
Danbury
Thomaston
Torrington
Washington
Putnam
West Point
Hudson River
Lord Howe
Black Rock
Southport
Cigarette Output Surges Past 92 Billion in 1920s
Washington reports massive tobacco use figures from last year. Americans smoked 92,009,977,815 cigarettes and 7,887,351,816 cigars, with 961,698,798 pounds of tobacco and 38,151,903 pounds of chewing tobacco consumed. Average per person: 784 cigarettes and 62 cigars annually.
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Washington
Sam
John
Internal Revenues Bureau
David G. Chessman
Cheegman
Local Man Fined $25 for Importing Beans
In New Haven February 1, Federal Judge BE. &. Thomas presided over civil matters as John Pease of Bridgeport was fined 25 dollars for violating the quarantine law by bringing beans into the country. Several criminal docket cases were taken up and other hearings set for later.
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New Haven
Associated Press
BE. &. Thomas
John Pease
Bridgeport
Advertising Drives Auto Market Share in National Survey
A nationwide survey shows advertising fuels the auto market, with automobiles leading ad spending. The report lists averages by category, highlighting automobiles at the top and other sectors like tobacco, electrical, furniture, and food following.
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Joe
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Hindle
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Meese
U.S
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F.W. Murnau
Fox Films
F. W. Murnau
Hollywood
Lux
France
Laver Bros. Co
Cambridge
Janet Gaynor
Fox
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